Name: CerteroX SAM
Rating: 4.6 (178 reviews)

Overview

Product Information on CerteroX SAM

Updated 13th October 2025

What is CerteroX SAM?

Certero for Enterprise SAM is a software designed to help organizations manage and optimize software assets across complex IT environments. The software provides centralized visibility of software usage, licensing, and compliance, supporting processes such as discovery, inventory, audit readiness, and lifecycle management. It enables automated identification of installed software, tracks entitlements, and assists in analyzing license consumption to mitigate risks related to non-compliance and overspending. Certero for Enterprise SAM aims to streamline software asset management tasks, facilitate informed decision-making, and improve efficiency in managing software estates.

Overall experience with CerteroX SAM

Marketing Associate

30B + USD, Consumer Goods

FAVORABLE

“Strong Oracle license visibility tool that requires expert handling”

4.0

Feb 23, 2026

Certero for Oracle has given us much better visibility and control over our Oracle estate - especially around licensing. However, it's a tool that really needs proper setup and ownership to get full value.

Operations Associate

10B - 30B USD, Hardware

CRITICAL

“User-Friendliness Valued; Slow Performance and Frequent Lag Remain Problematic”

3.0

Feb 13, 2026

Solid platform but needs improvement on speed however it is user friendly

About Company

Company Description

Certero provide solutions and services that enable customers to see, govern and optimize costs with IT assets across the full scope of their infrastructure. This ranges from FinOps, to tackling Shadow IT, managing IT hardware and software throughout the lifecycle, to gaining real-time strategic insight into technology consumption and addressing the more focused challenges around software license compliance and optimization of investments for mega-vendors like Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Adobe and more. The Certero Platform provides a ‘single pane of glass’ to manage IT assets all in one place by simply activating the Certero products and features you need. Certero combine this unique technology with a range of optional consultancy services; delivered as one to connect the dots between best practices, expertise, process, automation and your business. This uniquely agile ‘Technology-Led Services’ approach ensures that no matter what the challenge is, value is always achieved.

Company Details

Company type

Private

Year Founded

2007

Head office location

Warrington, United Kingdom

Number of employees

2 - 99

Website

https://certero.com

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The biggest strength is the detailed visibility into Oracle usage and licensing positions. This helps reduce risk and gives confidence ahead of audits. The dashboards are clear and make it easier to understand complex licensing metrics. I also like the automation of data collection across servers and environments, which removes a lot of manual effort. The reporting features are strong as well, especially when preparing internal reviews or audit responses.

platform is user friendly which is important to all businesses when rolling out.

Certero automates tax reporting processes such as VAT directly from Oracle. It ensures compliance with our tax regulations through updates as fast as they changes come to life.

The initial configuration can be quite technical and requires experienced resources. The interface isn't the most modern or intuitive for new users. It can also take time to interpret some of the more complex licensing reports if you're not familiar with Oracle's rules. In some cases, integration with other asset management tools requires extra work.

one of the main weakness is speed. another would be it lags, a lot of this might be size of database.

Solution involes quite high costs (license and maintanance). Whats more we are dependent on the vendor for the timing and scope of regulatory updates (its a risk for our company). Using solution require training to fully utilize the system's functionality.

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10B+ USD

Consumer Goods

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Strong Oracle license visibility tool that requires expert handling

It Associate

1B-10B USD

Banking

Deep Oracle Integration in Certero Streamlines Reporting With Vendor Dependency Risks

Apr 8, 2026

Certero stands out among similar tax solutions mainly due to its deep, native integration with the Oracle ecosystem and its strong focus solely on tax and regulatory reporting. Another key advantage is the centralization of tax logic in a single paltform instead of fragmented configurations.

It Manager

50M-1B USD

Retail

ODBC Connectivity Simplifies SQL Execution Though Some Syntax Limitations Persist

5.0

Apr 7, 2026

This is very useful for data analysis & to run the updated Query 400 using AS400 & DB/400

Hardware

User-Friendliness Valued; Slow Performance and Frequent Lag Remain Problematic

IT GOVERNANCE MANAGER

Gov't/PS/Ed

Government

A great tool for SAM, very thorough

Jan 29, 2024

We've been using Certero for a number of years now. it is a comprehensive tool providing useful insight to our asset deployments.